Friday, August 31, 2012

For
the next week until the end of the DNC convention I will run a quote or two
from the RNC.I may even compare a DNC
quote with an RNC quote

“Fifty-five
years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn’t put his arm around him
and say ‘let me take care of you.’” –- Ted Cruz.

“And on a personal note – a little girl
grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham – the most segregated big city in America – her parents can’t take her to a movie
theater or a restaurant – but they make her believe that even though she can’t
have a hamburger at the Woolworth’s lunch counter – she can be President of the
United States and she becomes the Secretary of State. Yes, America has a way of making the impossible
seem inevitable in retrospect. But of course it has never been inevitable –
it has taken leadership, courage and an
unwavering faith in our values.” — Condi Rice

Some thoughts on
the RNC Convention

Seeing
the speakers and the Romney Ryan team at the RNC I am reminded of the business
saying that first rate people hire first
rate people.Second rate people hire third rate people.Compare Paul
Ryan with Joe Biden.

I
thought the convention was terrific.We
saw a big and diverse GOP with stories
about success with the explanation “this is America.”It seems the GOP has a much bigger and more diverse bench, one that comes from
talent, not affirmative action.

The Democrats
have a hard act to follow.The
Republicans focused on success, the economy, jobs, taxes and spending.We heard a lot of complaints from DNC people about the negativity, but this
appears to be more of an inoculation to
protect themselves from criticism when them come forward trying to convince
the American people that to paraphrase Marco Rubio when he said the President
wasn’t a bad man but a bad president, that in fact, Mitt Romney is the devil on
earth.

The
other point you heard from the left was there
wasn’t enough details of the plans the GOP had to address the economy,
jobs, taxes and spending.It will be interesting to see what kind of specific we
will hear from Mr. Obama.

I
with the majority of Americans watched
the convention on FNC. I did go over
to CNN and MSNBC to see what their commentators had to say between
speakers.MSNBC is fantasyland for liberals.Any connection with the truth
seems to be purely coincidental.

I
thought Clint Eastwood was too slow
but he did level what was probably the most criticism of President Obama.The
empty chair with a teleprompter was very clever. And it appears the White House's thin skinned occupant had to answer it.

Does seem like something a confident candidate would do

To which critics with Photoshop answered his answer.

The Best and
Worst at the RNC Convention

Who
do you think gave the best speech?What
was the best joke?Who was the worst
gate crasher or the worst sport?Read
about it here.

Peggy Noonan chimes in with
her views of the Convention.It’s
interesting to see what she saw as the game changer.

It’s
official.Bush is to blame

White
House Press Secretary Jay Carney, was stumped this afternoon when ABC’s
Jake Tapper questioned him about a new
study that showed that under Obama household
median annual incomes have fallen 4.8% since the recession technically ended in
2009.

Carney weaved in and out over several vague
platitudes, blaming the previous
administration for plunging the economy into a recession.

It appears
Romney is to blame here

President Obama announce he will go to New Orleans on Mondayafter Romney announced he was going there today.

“You didn’t
build that”

Many
moons ago, I spent a couple of years in a fiction-writing program at a local
university. I never finished the novel I aspired to write, but I did learn some
valuable lessons. The most important: “It
doesn’t matter what you meant. What matters is what youconveyed.”

It seems the official fact checkers can’t
tell the difference between a fact and
something they don’t like.

AP found Ryan’s Janesville GM plant
story to be false saying the plant was shut down in December 2008, even though
that contradicts AP’s storyof the plant’s shutdown in April 2009.What the old saying?Is AP lying now or were they lying then?

In the meantime, this article finds
PolitiFact to be high on Political but very iffy on facts.

Campaigning at Capital University in
Columbus, Ohio last week, President Obama raised quite eloquently -- okay,
succinctly -- the question of where one should turn for help in pursuing one's
happiness. The answer: government,"applause";family,
"booo."

This may explain why unmarried women are strong supporters of
the Democrats while married women
are strong supporters of the Republicans (they have their families to take
care of).

Obama:President or King

We have seen over the past 3 ½ years
an embolden President ignore the
Constitution and do more and more questionable things by executive fiat.It has become epidemic this election year as he has given more goodies to the groups he’s
counting on for their votes.From
free birth control, to green cards, to supporting gay marriage Obama seeks to
gain support by tearing us apart.

Speaking of Dog Whistles

The left seems to think everything can be construed as a hidden racial slur including the
words “Chicago” and “golf.”So how do
they react when one of their own crosses the line?

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Paul Ryan connected
with the delegates at the RNC Convention and with a vast part of America as
well.CNN ran a group of undecided voters
to rate the speech and asked them if Ryan seemed scary.Much
to the Democrats chagrin no one found him scary.Women liked his stories of his widowed mother
and I like where he promised that the
Republican want to have a debate about the big issues, aren’t afraid of the
debate and will win the debate.

One
of the reports on the speech said:“It
has been a very long time since Americans have met a leader who uses ideas not to dazzle, not to appeal to our heads but to
our hearts as well.”

Another writer
found: “His soft-spoken manner played intimately, even in an arena of 22,000.
When protesters began chanting against Ryan, the crowd drowned them out with
thunderous applause. Ryan brought fire to a campaign lacking in it – and he also brought
credibility on serious issues.

Democrats will have a
significant problem painting Ryan as unsympathetic or insincere.”

Roger
Kimball says: “I suspect that Joe Biden
is feeling pretty awful this morning. For that matter, I’d wager Barack
Obama has had better nights’ rest. Condi
Rice’s speech was bad enough for the Democrats — it was serious, dignified,
eloquent — but Paul Ryan hit it out of the park…”

2012:The Sex Party vs the Jobs Party

It
appears the Democrats plan a woman’s
festival at their convention headlining women
and birth control and abortion.I
imagine we will also see some on Gay
Marriage since Obama has moved to support that.Against these issues we see the Republicans talking about jobs, Medicare,
spending, and getting the economy moving again.Looking at Gallup's poll on the issues I don’t find birth control, abortion or
gay marriage on the list.In fact, I don’t
see any social issues there.

Leftist
Claim Ryan lied Repeatedly—Factcheck

Dave
Weigel of Slate compiled a useful list. Wrote Weigel, “Ryan plowed through one of the
more impressive strings of whoppers we’ve seen at this level,” wrote Weigel. Here are his complaints, in order of
importance.

Ryan
is making a difference

A funny thing didn't happen on the
way to Paul Ryan's rousing speech Wednesday night accepting the GOP nomination
for Vice President. The Republican ticket hasn't sunk in the polls, Democrats
haven't nationalized the race around Medicare to their advantage, and seniors haven't fled Mitt Romney in droves.

All of those outcomes were predicted
with utter certainty by the great political sages when Mr. Romney selected Mr. Ryan on that mid-August weekend. Go
back to the videotape for the August 12 Sunday talk shows. Many
Republicans—some in Mr. Romney's own campaign—said the same thing sotto voce.
(We know who you are.)

So far they've
all been exactly wrong, as the polls show Mr. Romney having closed the gap
against President Obama not only in Mr. Ryan's native Wisconsin but in Florida,
Ohio and Virginia. On Medicare, an issue that Democrats usually dominate, Mr.
Romney is battling to a draw at worst and is nearly even among voters on which
candidate is most trusted. This hasn't happened since the dawn of the
entitlement age.

Whining
Democrats Claim Republicans are too negative

The Democrats are losing it, literally. The Obama camp and
its surrogates are losing the fight to
control the narrative about Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) They
are losing the effort to distract voters through the presence at the GOP
convention of Obama campaign staffers such as Robert Gibbs and Ben LaBolt, who spend their time wandering about and
whining to the media here in Tampa about the “negativity” of the other
side.

It’s really a stretch for the Democrats to complain about
negativity when we have had them attack Mitt Romney as a felon, a killer, and
someone who liked to fire people (see picture below).

RNC Convention deep,
diverse, and youthful

“Tuning in to the Republican National Convention this week, viewers could be forgiven
for thinking they had switched on the Democratic convention of yesteryear, what
with all the up-and-coming women and
minority politicians taking the stage. It’s a contrast with Democrats, who will trot out a bunch of timeworn white
guys next week in Charlotte to help make the party’s case to the nation.”The Republican bench is deep, diverse, and youthful.

Are the polls (even the left leaning
ones) hiding the truth?Is the election really in the bag for
Romney? “It is my contention that
this is due to a mix of the infamous
Bradley effect and what is known in Britain as ‘the Shy Tory Factor,’ with both coming together to exaggerate just how popular Obama is in
America.”

I
think there is a large group of Americans who are looking for permission to
actually vote against Obama and most of them will get that permission in the
next two months.

The
Democrat Brand in Trouble

“For the very first time, the favorable/unfavorable ratios are now higher
for the Republican Party than for the Democratic Party. For the first time
ever, the Democratic favorability ratio, which has always been within the range
of 1.20 to 1.56, is now below 1. It is a stunningly low .83, which is 31% lower
than the prior Democratic Party low of 1.20, which was reached in 2004. . . . The Democratic brand has thus suffered more
(down 39%) under Obama than the Republican brand suffered under either of
George W. Bush’s two terms (-16%, then -31%).”

Finding
racism everywhere

Mitch McConnell
said:
“For four years, Barack Obama has been
running from the nation’s problems, he hasn’t been working to earn re-election.
He has been working to earn a spot on
the PGA Tour.”

Lawrence O’Donnell found the racism in that
quote:Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He is
trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely, the — lifestyle of Tiger Woods with
Barack Obama. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth. They find
every way they possibly can to..”

Another
case of leftists finding what they are looking.Even the person he was talking to didn’t see the connection.

In
the meantime over at Legal Insurrection
we find, “And then there is the media
race card feeding frenzy, which is more out of control than anything I have
seen in the three years and 10 months this blog has been operating. Far
worse.

The race card playing by the media has become a mental illness that is
getting worse over time as they self-medicate
with necessarily escalating false accusations of racism.”

Finally John M. Robinson, the Chief
Diversity Officer at the U.S. Department of State, is scouring our language to expunge the racism in our vocabulary.Finding “holding
down the fort,”“Black and Tan,” “Handicapped,”
and “Rule of thumb” offensive he probably wants to confer with Lawrence O’Donnell
to see what he might have missed.

“It
is to be regretted that the rich and
powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
When government goes beyond equal protection by law and undertakes to allocate
wealth and opportunity, “the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics
and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors
to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.”AndrewJackson

We have to pass
the bill to see what’s in it

Because of a rule in the Affordable Care Act that lifts caps on policy payoffs,
the cheap insurance policies typically healthy students previously got are skyrocketing, some over 1,000 percent.
The reason: Without payoff caps, insurance firms are boosting prices to cover
their potential losses.The law of
unintended consequences strikes again.

The wrong story
for the anti-Second Amendment crowd

Teresa
Barron, 38, had just dropped off her child at the school when the child's
father showed up, and the two got into an argument. The child's father, 38-year-old Roberto Barron allegedly then stabbed the woman several times in the upper body and
neck area.

In the meantime, “Only 32 percent of Americans believe public
schools deliver a good education, and just five percent of people surveyed
believe students at public schools will receive an excellent education.
Sixty-one percent of Americans think public schools will give only a fair
education at best, including 18 percent who rate the education as poor.”